Hans-Günter Funke

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Hans-Günter Funke (born April 4, 1947 ) is a former German soccer player who played 133 league games and scored 55 goals from 1966 to 1971 in the then second-class Regionalliga Südwest at TuS Neuendorf . The offensive player was twice in 1968 and 1969 with Neuendorf runner-up in the Regionalliga Südwest and is Koblenz's record scorer in this league.

career

Mönchengladbach and Neuendorf, until 1971

After Borussia Mönchengladbach was promoted to the Bundesliga in 1965, coach Hennes Weisweiler's team with Gerhard Elfert , Berti Vogts , Heinz Wittmann , Erwin Spinnler and Hans-Günter Funke from SC Myhl equipped five newcomers with contracts at the Bökelberg. It was the beginning of a great career for the young VfR Büttgen player Berti Vogts, for the four months younger attacker from the former district of Erkelenz , the requirements of the Bundesliga and the Borussia squad should prove to be too high. Funke was not used in any competitive game by Mönchengladbach in 1965/66 and he said goodbye to the "Foal Elf" after an unsatisfactory sporting year. For the 1966/67 season he signed a contract with TuS Neuendorf in the second-class Regionalliga Südwest and moved from the Lower Rhine to Koblenz.

In the first year in the Oberwerth stadium , the man from Myhl experienced a weak round with Neuendorf. The 4th of the 1965/66 season with 81 goals scored fell back to 14th place in 1966/67 and had just scored 35 goals. This was despite the fact that in addition to Funke, Rudolf Stracke , Otto Jaworski and the Gladbach reserve goalkeeper Rudolf Krätschmer were new to Koblenz. Funke had scored five goals for TuS in 28 league games. He celebrated his first goal in a 2: 3 home defeat on October 10, 1966 against SV Alsenborn, against whom he also scored in the second half of the 2-0 away win. In the second season, 1967/68, Neuendorf went with the new coach Herbert Rappsilber and in the attack, Funke showed excellent scoring qualities with 26 hits in his second round. Since the newcomers Helmut Horsch , Willi Kostrewa , Walter Keil and Werner Rath also proved to be reinforcements, the table rose steeply. The attacking player, who can be used flexibly in attack, opened his series of hits on the fourth game day, September 4, 1967, with a goal in the 5-0 home win against VfR Frankenthal. With a bang of four goals in the 4-0 home win on October 9, 1967 against Saar 05, his amazing series of goals began. Against Ludwigshafener SC and SV Völklingen, he met three times in the opposing net. With two goals, he finished the round on May 5, 1968 in a 4-0 home win against Mainz-Weisenau and had 26 goals to show after 26 league games. In the internal goalscorer list of the TuS followed by a clear margin Werner Hölzenbein and Werner Rath with eight goals each. Just three days later, on May 8th, the playoff against FK Pirmasens to determine the Southwest runner-up was on the agenda. In front of 18,000 spectators in Bad Kreuznach he equalized the 1-0 lead by Dieter Weinkauff in the 36th minute and after further hits by his teammates Otto Jaworski and Werner Hölzenbein (108th) Neuendorf prevailed 3-2 in extra time and moved into the Bundesliga promotion round.

The Southwest representative did well: He defied the later promoted Kickers Offenbach on May 29, 1968 in front of 28,000 spectators and took two points from group runners-up Bayer 04 Leverkusen with the 1-1 games. At the end of the promotion round, Neuendorf took 3rd place in the group with 7: 9 points. Attacker Funke had played in all eight games and scored the equalizer in a 1-1 home draw against Tennis Borussia Berlin on June 23.

In the 1968/69 round Neuendorf again won the runner-up in the southwest; only after 30 rounds they were tied with defending champion SV Alsenborn - both clubs showed 44:16 points, only due to the poorer goal difference of 69:25 (SVA) to 56:23 (TuS), in 2nd place. The 56 round hits were widely distributed among newcomers Alfred Brecht (11), Funke and Bernd Vogtmann (9 each), Hans Sondermann (8), and Werner Hölzenbein and Helmut Horsch, each with seven goals. In the Bundesliga promotion round, Funke was again in all eight games and scored one goal. After the end of the season Neuendorf had to cope with the losses of Kostrewa, Krätschmer, Sondermann and Stracke; That was one of the reasons why the former successful coach Rappsilber ended his work early on April 8, 1970 and Funke and colleagues ended the season in 8th place in 1969/70. The attacker had played 29 league games and scored seven goals. In the fifth season of Funke in Neuendorf, 1970/71, now Werner Mangold was working as a coach, the way to the top in the southwest was not far from sight, but Borussia Neunkirchen, FK Pirmasens and SV Südwest Ludwigshafen distanced the pursuers in the end 1. FC Saarbrücken, SV Alsenborn and Neuendorf. The Koblenz team took 6th place and Funke had scored eight more goals in 25 league appearances alongside Bernd Vogtmann (15 goals) and Helmut Horsch (7 goals). He had played his last regional league game on May 9, 1971 in a 3-1 home defeat against FK Pirmasens. He ended his contract playing career in the summer of 1971 and moved to VfB Wissen in the Rhineland League .

VfB Wissen, 1971 to 1973

With the 11th of the 1970/71 season, the newcomer from Neuendorf, Hans-Günter Funke, played his way up to the runner-up in the Rhineland League with VfB Wissen 1971/72 . The Eisbachtaler Sportfreunde secured the championship and promotion to the Regionalliga Südwest by four points. In the first half of the season, Funke was in the Rhineland selection, which reached a 2-2 draw in the amateur country cup on October 8, 1971 on the Spree. On May 28 and June 4, respectively, he played in the two games for the German amateur championship against MTV Ingolstadt (0: 2, 0: 1). When VfB Wissen finished 5th in 1972/73, Funke was used again in two games in the Rhineland selection in the amateur country cup against Hessen (1: 2, 2: 3) and scored a goal.

The available literature on the course of Hans-Günter Funke's playing career does not provide any further information. From March 31 to June 30, 1989, for many years after his active time, he was a coach at his old club TuS Koblenz.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 145.
  • Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1967/68. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 3-89784-087-1 .
  • Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1968/69. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 3-89784-087-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963 to 1994. P. 145
  2. ↑ Holger Jenrich, Markus Aretz: The Elf from the Lower Rhine. Borussia Mönchengladbach has been in the Bundesliga for 40 years. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 3-89533-503-7 . P. 18
  3. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): Südwest-Chronik, Fußball in Südwestdeutschland 1969/70 - 1973/74. Lindemann publishing house. Offenbach a. M. 2017. p. 300
personal data
SURNAME Funke, Hans-Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1947